Doubling down on claims that its warehouses are safe, Amazon has sued Washington's workplace safety regulator.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in a federal court in Seattle, Amazon accused Washington Department of Labor & Industries of stacking the system against employers and violating their due process rights. Under Washington law, if a company receives a safety violation, it must take steps proposed by L&I to mitigate safety concerns even before any violations have been proven — and while an appeal is pending.
Amazon faces $81,000 in fines from four citations issued between May 2021 and March 2022 over safety concerns at three of its Washington warehouses — in Kent, DuPont and Sumner.
